Mark 12:13-27

Christian Standard Bible

God and Caesar

¹³ Then^(A) they sent some of the Pharisees^(B) and the Herodians^(C) to Jesus to trap him in his words.^{(D) 14} When they came, they said to him, “Teacher, we know you are truthful and don’t care what anyone thinks, nor do you show partiality^(E) but teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes^(F) to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

¹⁵ But knowing their hypocrisy,^(G) he said to them, “Why are you testing^(H) me? Bring me a denarius^[a](I) to look at.” ¹⁶ They brought a coin. “Whose image^(J) and inscription^(K) is this?” he asked them.

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

¹⁷ Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”^(L) And they were utterly amazed^(M) at him.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

¹⁸ Sadducees,^(N) who say there is no resurrection,^(O) came to him and questioned him: ¹⁹ “Teacher,^(P) Moses^(Q) wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child,^(R) that man should take the wife^(S) and raise up offspring for his brother.^{[b](T) 20} There were seven brothers. The first married a woman, and dying, left no offspring. ²¹ The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²² None of the seven^[c] left offspring. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise,^[d] whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”

²⁴ Jesus spoke to them, “Isn’t this the reason why you’re mistaken: you don’t know the Scriptures^(U) or the power^(V) of God?^{(W) 25} For when they rise^(X) from the dead,^(Y) they neither marry nor are given in marriage^(Z) but are like angels^(AA) in heaven. ²⁶ And as for the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him: I^(AB) am the God of Abraham^(AC) and the God of Isaac^(AD) and the God of Jacob?^{[e](AE) 27} He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken.”